The
MD - Matt Gowar
As founder and
driving force of Equip Outdoor Technologies Matt juggles the demands
of running an expanding business with limited leisure time out on
the water. He's responsible for sales in North America and the Pacific rim.
matt.gowar@equipuk.com |
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Design, Sales and Marketing Director
- Chris Harding
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Head of Product, Sales and Marketing Chris has overall responsibility
for product development and new range timelines, co-ordinating the
efforts of the specialist designers in the team and he's responsible for all European sales.
chris.harding@equipuk.com
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| The
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| Helen
Roberts
With several years outdoor retail experience before switching
to a career in design Helen has worked on all the Equip brands specialising
on the new Rab women's wear range. She's a keen climber and surfer
though freely admits she's not good at either!
helen.roberts@equipuk.com
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Ben Manwaring
Ben comes from a product design background, with his interests being climbing, scrambling, hillwalking and mountain biking he'd wanted to get into the outdoor industry for a while - he's managed it as he's now our equipment designer.
ben.manwaring@
equipuk.com |
Oliver Nissen
Our junior designer Oliver has previously worked for a down clothing company and is in the final stages of completing his MA in Performance Sportswear Design at the University of Derby. He has an active interest in the mountains and is a keen snowboarder.
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| Mat Nalder
Mat joins us from New Zealand and he brings with him a wealth of design experience across Rucksacks, Sleeping Bags and Down products.
mat.nalder@equipuk.com
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Rab
Carrington
As a guru of technical clothing and sleeping bag design, original
founder of the RAB brand and respected climber for 30 years Rab
now runs specialist projects looking at the future development of
our expedition clothing systems.
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Pete O'Donovan
Founder of the Podsacs brand Pete is staying with us as consultant and adviser on all things Pod!
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Hayley
Allsebrook
Hayley is our garment technologist and came to Equip after several years in the field
of garment technology, Hayley is a valuable part of the Equip
design team.
hayley.allsebrook@
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Jane Grimshaw
Jane joins us from Leeds University where she has already gained a BA (Hons) in Textile Design, an MSc (Merit) in Advanced Clothing & Performance Textiles and is currently completing her PhD into Garment Performance
jane.grimshaw@equipuk.com
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Sales Manager - Neil McAdie
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As Sales Manager at Equip Neil is responsible
for the UK sales function within the company while still attempting
to climb and mountaineer in the remaining spare time!
neil.mcadie@equipuk.com
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The Sales Team
Trade sales are serviced by a combination of 'area sales managers' and 'internal sales office support staff':
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Area Sales Manager

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Sales Office Contact

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Cowie -
Area Manager Scotland, Lakes, N Ireland.
Ian tours the Highlands talking about outdoor kit - some people
would pay to do that yet we pay him! Easy life! With wide ranging
industry experience and a strong ski background Ian works across
all of our brands.
ian.cowie@equipuk.com
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Dan Thompson
Dan
Thompson works in our sales office looking after all of Ian’s accounts (Scotland, Ireland, Lakes, NE). Dan joins us from a background in the sharp end of retail and could lay claim to be the fittest member of our team with a 100km round trip cycle across the Peak District to work each day. Seen here competing in this years Fred Whitton race in the Lake District.
dan.thompson@equipuk.com
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Area Sales Manager

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Mark
House - Area Manager for Wales and the North of England. Mark
has worked in a variety of roles at Equip gaining an in depth knowledge
of our product ranges, backed up by previous sales experience in
the outdoor retail environment. As a keen climber and canoeist there
are not many of our products that Mark has not used. Seen here searching
our car park for a lost contact lens!
mark.house@equipuk.com
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Declan McGing
Dec looks after Mark's accounts. In his spare time he admits to being quite lazy, watching films and reading books but after getting a mountain bike last year he's trying to change this.
declan.mcging@equipuk.com
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Area Sales Manager

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Sales Office Contact

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King - Area Manager South England.
Chris represents all of the Equip brands across the South of England
and has a strong sales background over many years. When not working
Chris can be found walking the hills in his favourite area, the
Lake District.
chris.king@equipuk.com
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Rob
Eadon
Rob brings to the sales team plenty of experience after
working in the outdoor retail trade. If he's not climbing, running
or at work he's normally asleep! Rob looks after Chris' accounts.
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International Sales |
Sales Office Contact

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Sales Agent Norway

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Sales Agent Benelux

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Jonathan Morgan
Jonathan brings to Equip a wealth of experience after working in the outdoor retail trade and working as a climbing/skiing/hiking guide for the world Scout centre in Switzerland. He is an all round climber, Mountain marathon competitor and skier. He looks after all of our export customers.
jonathan.morgan@
equipuk.com
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Bjørn
Kruse
Giant Norwegian ski-god and sales agent for RAB, outdoordesigns
and Handy Heros in Norway. Bjørn loves steep couloirs, outdoordesigns
gloves and beautiful women, but not necessarily in that order!
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Rob Fröberg
Rob is our sales agent for RAB, outdoordesigns and Handy Heros
in Benelux. Originally with a strong climbing background Rob now
sticks to hiking, mountain biking, skiing and speedskating.
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Sales Agent Switzerland

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Sales Agent Switzerland

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Sales Agent Germany

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Sales Agent in Switzerland
for the Rab brand
freetimex@bluewin.ch
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Hermann Blaser
Sales Agent in Switzerland
for the outdoordesigns and Handy Heros brands
hermann.blaser@
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Dirk Reinholz
The German agent for Equip, like many in the outdoor trade, Dirk
went from hobby to profession. In the little bits of spare time
he can find he likes running, hiking, biking and skiing but also
loves a good match of tennis or beach volleyball.
info@cleanwood.eu
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Sales Agent France

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Sales Agent Italy

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Sales Agent USA

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Jonathan Caffyn
Jonathan is our contact for all French sales.
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Pierluigi Marengon
Pierluigi is our contact for all Italian sales.
pierluigi@vikingnordpool.com |
Matt Gowar
Matt is the contact for all sales in the USA.
matt.gowar@equipuk.com
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Sales Agent Quebec, Canada

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Antoine Simpson
Antoine has been working in the outdoor industry for the past 10 years. During the winter, he spends most of his time back country skiing and during the summer he's mountain biking, road biking, hiking, surfing and camping, it's amazing he has any time left to work!
sportrobson@rogers.com
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Marketing
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Jen Dargue
Marketing manager Jen likes most things that get her into the outdoors - climbing, skiing, biking.
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Georgina
Reed
George
is our graphic designer, working on packaging, web sites and catalogues,
between trips putting our walking products to good use on the local
hills of the Peak District.
georgina.reed@equipuk.com
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Finance
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| Rose
Moore
Rose
has overall responsibility for daily monitoring of our financial
systems. When not at work Rose is our top golfer and often found
out on the fairway...or bunker! As she pays all of our wages she's
a really, really top woman!
rose.moore@equipuk.com
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Beth
Edwards
Beth runs our
sales ledger function in the UK. When
she's not on the 'phone encouraging
our customers
to settle their accounts she
can be found developing
her position as our number one party animal.
beth.edwards@equipuk.com |
Alaska Bailey
The newest recruit to the Equip team, Alaska joins us as part of the accounts department.
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James
Philpot
James the techie, mends the computers when they go wrong!
He is responsible
for maintaining the computer network and telephone system.
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| Steve
Bridges
Steve is the company buyer, he's responsible for ...buying!
He can often be found climbing the walls!
steve.bridges@
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Jonathan
(LJ)Powell
Buying aministrator LJ
is an experienced
climber, mountain biker and kayaker, oh and you don't want to upset
him...he's a black belt first dan in Karate!!
jonathan.powell@
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Operations |
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Lee
Bridges
Operations Manager Lee has full responsibility for the warehouse and factory.
He cruelly extracts every last gram of effort out of our experienced
staff members ensuring consistently high quality. In Lee's world
everything is black and white.
lee.bridges@equipuk.com
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Mark Wilson
Customer services manager Mark tackles any returns across all of the equip brands. After many years working on the RAB fabric cutting tables and using the gear for biking and running events Mark is well qualified to answer your questions across the whole RAB range.
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Factory
With a long established and respected reputation our UK factory is
a centre of excellence on specialist down production, housing cutting,
sewing, down filling and a quality assurance facility. This enables
us to produce short run specialist expedition clothing and continue
to hand fill all RAB down sleeping bags on our own premises in Derbyshire.
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Rachel Brown |

Karen Topham |

Jackie Bramhall |
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Dave Cunningham
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Mr Mysterious
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Lester Allcock
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The lads are our experienced down fillers ensuring consistent and
controlled filling of all down sleeping bags at our factory in Derbyshire.

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| Ian
Worley
Warehouse supervisor Ian takes part in a variety of sporty
activities, although skittles, darts and pool don’t usually
require the use of the RAB range of equipment!
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David
Naylor
David is a valuable member
of the warehouse team, even
if
he does support Notts County!
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Richard
Webster
Richard is a Nottingham Forest supporter but so far we've
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Neil Sims
Neil is yet another football fan, as a supporter of Derby County it's as though each member of the warehouse has to support a different team!
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Richard Palmer
You guessed it, another football fan...this time it's Man United but Richard also likes a game of golf. |
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